SEBLS Chapter 2

After class and after Zhuang Wu made up his mind, he returned to his seat, tore a piece of paper, and began to write and scribble on it. After wasting several pieces of paper, he finally wrote a satisfactory love letter which he then stuffed into an envelope. Just as he was about to go find Qin Qiyue, he suddenly thought of something and turned to ask the female classmate next to him, “Do you have perfume?”

The female classmate was stunned for a moment, then nodded and handed him a perfume.

After expressing his thanks, Zhuang Wu took the perfume and sprayed it on the envelope a few times. After making sure that the fragrance remained on the envelope, he stood up and walked towards Qin Qiyue.

“Qin Qiyue.”

Zhuang Wu stood beside Qin Qiyue’s desk and called his name.

Qin Qiyue stopped writing with his pen and looked at Zhuang Wu. “What?”

Zhuang Wu hesitated for a long time before a few words crumbled out of his mouth, “I’m…. fine. Just keep writing.”

“……”

Just as he was about to leave, Qin Qiyue grabbed his arm and said with obvious impatience in his tone, “What’s wrong? What were you trying to say?”

There were so many classmates in the classroom. If he gave the love letter to Qin Qiyue directly, it would definitely attract attention. Zhuang Wu instantly lost his courage, but he didn’t want to miss the opportunity. “I’ll tell you after the evening self-study. Pack slowly and wait for me. It’s very important.”

Qin Qiyue frowned and looked at him for a long time before letting go of his hand. “Alright.”

Zhuang Wu spent the whole day in a daze. He was like a deer that had lost its sense of direction and didn’t know what to do. Even if he had reluctantly accepted what was happening to him, it would be impossible for him to adapt to it so quickly.

It was not until the last evening self-study class that Zhuang Wu forced himself to cheer up and went to find Qin Qiyue. Qin Qiyue kept his word and was indeed packing up slowly. Even after all his classmates had left, he was still packing up.

This time, Zhuang Wu was really prepared. He took the love letter, walked to Qin Qiyue, and threw it on his desk. “Listen carefully. Starting today, I will pursue you.”

After saying this, Zhuang Wu felt relieved. As long as he has confessed his feelings, he would not be timid anymore no matter how he pursued the other in the future. On the other hand, Qin Qiyue waited for a whole day because he wanted to know what Zhuang Wu wanted to say. In the end, he heard Zhuang Wu say this.

He sighed, and when he looked at Zhuang Wu again, his eyes were filled with dissatisfaction. “…Have you gone crazy?”

“I’m not crazy.” Zhuang Wu said resolutely, “I’m serious.”

But his resolve didn’t have any effect. Qin Qiyue simply thought he was crazy.

Qin Qiyue picked up his schoolbag and left. The love letter on the table fell to the ground because of his schoolbag. He didn’t even look at it. “I shouldn’t have believed you when you said you had something important to say and wasted half a day of my time.”

This was the love letter he had spent so much time writing, but Qin Qiyue didn’t even want it. Zhuang Wu was naturally unwilling to accept it. He picked up the love letter on the ground and followed Qin Qiyue from the school to the alley.

After a long time, Qin Qiyue could no longer bear it and he questioned Zhuang Wu, “Why are you following me? Are you that free?”

Since he had already confessed, it wouldn’t be surprising no matter what he did next, so the nervousness from before his confession seemed to have disappeared. “I want to pursue you, so I have to follow you, plus our houses are next to each other…”

His words left Qin Qiyue speechless for a moment. After a moment of silence, Qin Qiyue ignored him and continued walking forward.

Zhuang Wu shouted to him, “Please accept this love letter. It took me a long time to write it. I would be very sad if you didn’t even open it.”

“Sad your ass!” Qin Qiyue refuted him. “This joke you made is not even funny. How come I can’t tell that you’re sad at all?”

He was truly sad. How could he not be sad when the person he liked treated his confession as some crazy joke? Qin Qiyue couldn’t see it because he probably wasn’t obvious enough, so he would show it more obviously.

As an actor, although he was only an 18th-tier actor, Zhuang Wu still has some acting skills. Beneath the lights in the alley, he showed his emotions vividly. “So, you’re taking my words as a joke because you don’t like me?”

“……”

“Gege, I really like you.” Zhuang Wu’s eyes were serious. His expression was acting, but his words were serious. “And please, treat my love well, will you?”

The sudden endearment of Gege made Qin Qiyue doubt his ears for a moment.

To be honest, it wasn’t that Qin Qiyue didn’t want to believe it, but he really couldn’t understand why Zhuang Wu, who had always disliked him, was suddenly saying that he liked him. Who would believe that?!

“Fine.” Qin Qiyue compromised. “Then tell me, why do you like me? Didn’t you hate me before?”

It was difficult to answer this question. After all, Zhuang Wu indeed hated Qin Qiyue before this, and he fell in love with Qin Qiyue later on only because they received the same script to a film. He couldn’t say that he saw them in the future filming in the same crew and being together, right?

Zhuang Wu thought about it and answered with difficulty, “I thought I hated you at first, but when I examined myself carefully, I suddenly became aware of the question, why did I hate only you? I hated you because I care about you, but there weren’t many conflicts between us. I care about you, definitely because I like you, not because I hate you. I have always regarded my like for you as hate. Now, I understand that I just like you.”

Qin Qiyue sneered. “Zhuang Wu, don’t you think your reason is too far-fetched?”

Zhuang Wu certainly knew that his reasoning was far-fetched, but he really didn’t know of any better reason.

“Because liking someone doesn’t need any reason.” Zhuang Wu’s voice sounded aggrieved. “You insist on asking me to give you a reason, so of course what I’ll say is far-fetched…”

 

These words were not reasonable at all. Qin Qiyue did not want to waste any more words and just said casually, “Okay, I know you like me, but I don’t accept it, so give up.”

Saying so much was still useless. Zhuang Wu felt a little disappointed, but he continued to follow Qin Qiyue. “At least accept this love letter!”

The love letter in his hand was taken away by Qin Qiyue. He casually threw the love letter into the trash can beside him but he missed, causing the love letter to fall on the ground next to the trash can. “I’ve accepted it. The love letter is mine now. I’m free to do whatever I want with it.”

Seeing Qin Qiyue just throwing away the love letter, Zhuang Wu’s heart sank, and he subconsciously wanted to pick it up. But just as his hand was about to reach out, he suddenly thought that Qin Qiyue would not accept it even if he picked it up. They would have plenty of time to spend together in the future anyway, and he still had a chance.

So, he ignored the love letter and ran to Qin Qiyue’s side, but was stopped by Qin Qiyue. “Student Zhuang Wu, I’m already home, do you still want to follow me?”

Zhuang Wu was stunned. He looked around and this was indeed the building where he and Qin Qiyue lived before. Qin Qiyue’s home was the door right in front, while he still had to walk a few more steps forward to reach his. He really couldn’t follow Qin Qiyue anymore…

“Well, see you tomorrow, Gege!” Zhuang Wu said goodbye to him reluctantly.

As Qin Qiyue opened the door and went in, he said calmly. “Don’t call me Gege. I’m not much older than you.”

After saying that, he closed the door. Maybe he closed it too hard, causing the door to make a very obvious noise.

Since Qin Qiyue had already entered the house, there was no point for him to stay here, so Zhuang Wu had no choice but to head to his house. 

There was no one outside the building, so it appeared particularly empty.

After a while, the door of Qin Qiyue’s house was opened again, and Qin Qiyue walked out. He went to the trash can, looked at the love letter on the ground, and then looked at the closed door of Zhuang Wu’s house. After confirming that Zhuang Wu would not come out again, he bent down and picked up the love letter.

He wanted to see what Zhuang Wu could write in a love letter.

The next day when he arrived at school, Zhuang Wu originally wanted to sit down at his seat directly, but he heard a classmate reading on the podium, “Before I met you, I had never cared so much about anyone. When I met you, Qin Qiyue, I would feel happy or sad for the whole day because of a casual word from you. As long as you’re in front of me, there’s no room for anyone else in my eyes…”

“……”

Zhuang Wu was convinced that he had not heard wrongly. This was the failed love letter he wrote yesterday that was discarded and thrown into the classroom trash can. So there really were people so idle that they would even pick through the papers in the trash can. If he had known this, he would have torn it up before throwing it away.

However, there was no name written on the love letter, and they didn’t know it was written by him, so he walked inside the classroom as if it had nothing to do with him. Just as he was about to enter, a hand was placed on his shoulder.

A bad premonition came to his mind as Zhuang Wu turned back cautiously. Sure enough, the person behind him was the recipient of the love letter, Qin Qiyue…

“Explain it to me.” It was hard to tell from Qin Qiyue’s expression whether he was angry or not, but his voice was frighteningly cold, “Turns out, the love letter written to me was not just for me.”

Before Zhuang Wu could speak, Qin Qiyue continued, “Do you think writing love letters is so glorious that you need everyone to know about it?”

“No!” Zhuang Wu felt that if he didn’t explain, Qin Qiyue’s fist would fall on his face. “I didn’t want them to know. I only intended to give it to you. What they had in their hands was the one I hadn’t finished writing and was thrown away. I didn’t expect there would be idiots going through the trash can.”

Before Qin Qiyue lost his temper, Zhuang Wu apologized first, “I’m sorry!”

Qin Qiyue, who felt like he was being called an idiot even though he didn’t rummage through the trash can, suddenly lost his temper after hearing Zhuang Wu’s sincere apology. Even if he beat Zhuang Wu up, would that solve the problem?

So, he ignored Zhuang Wu and walked straight into the classroom. As soon as he entered, he was stopped by the student who was reading the love letter on the podium. “Qin Qiyue, our protagonist, is here.”

Qin Qiyue glanced at him indifferently, said nothing, sat down and started solving questions.

His arrogant attitude made the classmate feel embarrassed, so he mocked, “Why aren’t you talking, Qin Qiyue? This is a love letter from your little fangirl. It looks like she wrote it very carefully. Why did you throw it into the trash? Don’t think highly of them?”

“I have nothing to say.” Qin Qiyue didn’t even raise his eyes.

Zhuang Wu saw Qin Qiyue being given a hard time, but he didn’t know how to help him and could just go to his seat dejectedly.

Qin Qiyue himself didn’t care about this matter so it was useless no matter how many times the love letter was read. The classmate didn’t want to make a fool of himself, but with so many people in the class watching, it would be too humiliating to just let it go. Thus, he refused to let it go. “Qin Qiyue, just because someone likes you, you think you’re so high and mighty that you don’t have to respond when others talk to you?”

No one answered him. The people around looked like they were watching a play; watching him clown around while Qin Qiyue acted as if the name written on that love letter wasn’t his.

This student’s name was Xu Zhong. He was well-known in the class for having no real ability and loving to show off. Naturally, no one would stand on his side to offend Qin Qiyue. Qin Qiyue was a good student and a treasure in the eyes of the teachers. Provoking him would only result in them being punished. Moreover, Qin Qiyue was handsome and didn’t cause trouble. No one in the class would target one person for no good reason.

The day after he officially started pursuing Qin Qiyue, Qin Qiyue was targeted by others. Zhuang Wu felt like it was over for him. Now, let alone making Qin Qiyue like him, he might even hate him more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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